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Practice question: Tests to Determine Validity of Governmental Regulation

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

In Imbong, was indirect participation through compelled referral treated as automatically incapable of burdening religious conscience?
  1. Yes, only direct physical performance can ever burden religion.
  2. Yes, referral is outside every constitutional inquiry.
  3. No; the Court recognized that the contested referral itself could burden the conscientious objector.
  4. Yes, every professional loses all religious liberty.
  5. No, because all health regulation is unconstitutional.

Legal references

  • Imbong v. Ochoa, G.R. No. 204819 et al., April 8, 2014, main decision, free exercise and nonemergency referral: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2014/apr2014/gr_204819_2014.html

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